Animal Rights/Veganism
While NOAV is primarily focused on opposing animal experimentation we are also opposed to all forms of animal abuse and use. We believe that veganism is the moral baseline, the minimum we owe to other animals.
We think most people agree that causing unnecessary suffering is wrong.
Over 150 billion animals are killed each year for food alone by human beings, the suffering of each one of those animals was wholly unnecessary and totally preventable.
Humans do not need to eat animals and infact it is healthier not to do so. The American Dietetic Association states “that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.”
So the only reason those animals suffered through hell is for people’s taste buds. These days there are many vegan alternatives that taste just as good or better than their animal product counterparts, so even taste preference is not a reason anymore.
So to continue paying others to kill and enslave other animals on your behalf is to cause unnecessary suffering. No matter who you are or what you believe we hope you agree that causing unnecessary suffering is wrong and if you do, there is no other logical action but to go vegan.
If you don’t think animals suffer in the farming industry (including ‘free-range’ and organic) or you are new to animal rights we ask that you put aside some time to watch this film from beginning to end. If you eat, wear or otherwise use any animal products you owe it to yourself and the animals to see this film.
Or if you like your truth in spoken form. Watch the best speech you will ever hear:
Eggs, including free-range, involves the killing of male chicks as they cannot produce eggs and are not the sort of chickens raised for meat. If you eat eggs, you fund this:
In the dairy industry male dairy calves are either sold into the veal industry and often sent on long journeys overseas or they are shot on the farm. Mother cows will cry out for their babies day in and day out.
For more info on going vegan please see the following pages: